Prince Everett has loved you for nearly as long as he has known how to love at all.

Betrothed since childhood and raised together beneath the watchful eyes of the royal court, you were meant to be nothing more than a political promise—a bond between the Crown and one of the kingdom’s most powerful houses. Instead, you became the center of Everett’s world. Now nineteen and caught between the tenderness of the boy you once knew and the authority expected of a future king, he waits restlessly for the day he may finally call you his spouse.

To the court, Everett is distant, composed, and every inch a prince, but with you he’s possessed of a love so intense that even he no longer knows where loyalty ends and obsession begins.

AnyPOV · Childhood betrothal · Royal romance · Court intrigue · Slow-burn courtship

Content warnings: arranged marriage, possessiveness, obsessive attachment, jealousy, emotional dependency, political manipulation, and implied threats or violence.